BPP Promotes Transparency in Public Procurement

The Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP) yesterday said it will in the coming weeks, unveil price checker to promote transparency and ensure that prices of commonly procured goods through the agency are uniform.

Speaking yesterday during ongoing first batch of 2019 procurement conversion training for Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) in Lagos, the BPP Director-General, Mamman Ahmadu, was quoted in a statement to have said the price checker was to ensure that across all government agencies, commonly procured goods like stationary, are bought at a price that is uniform, not likely the same, so as to discourage malpractices. He said the agency was working very hard to digitise its operations and reduce the level of human intervention in the public procurement process.

He said the ongoing procurement reforms had helped in preventing corruption in Nigeria, adding that the BPP is taking the lead on the procurement reform process by developing the capacity for its workforce to implement the reforms using training. “The reform is imperative for the purpose of good governance, which is the hallmark of any serious system. As it were, efficiency, transparency, accountability and value for money in the public procurement process ca only be achieved through concerted, sustained and consistent effort of government at skill acquisition needed for the process,” he said.

“Nigeria’s status as a signatory to the United Nations Convention Against Corruption (UNCAC) makes it necessary that all hands must be on deck to see to it that Nigeria escapes from corruption,” he said.